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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

THE CANDY BOMBER STILL LIVES…...AND FLIES!

In 1948, Josef Stalin cut off the roads and rails connecting West Berlin with West Germany, hoping to take the entire city into the communist fold.

Harry Truman decided that the United States would stand by the free people of Berlin, and began the “Berlin Airlift”, supplying an entire city with flour, sugar, meat, even coal, through the bitter winter of 1948-49, until Stalin admitted defeat and opened the roads.

But, it wasn’t ALL about staples. One young pilot began to drop little handkerchief parachutes with candy packages attached, to children who had never tasted chocolate, and soon many of his fellows started doing the same.

Children went home and told their parents about what the American pilots were doing, and relations between the people of Germany and the U.S. changed as a result of what HAL HALVORSEN, THE CANDY BOMBER began.

There’s a NEW BOOK out about the Berlin Airlift and Hal Halvorsen’s part in it, and you can watch the AUTHOR SPEAK AND ANSWER QUESTIONS on C-Span.

Finally, Ruth Marcus points out an important LESSON FOR IRAQ in the story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy Bombers, and MICHAEL BARONE follows up with a similar suggestion.

Posted by Earl on 07/30 at 10:02 AM
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RANDY PAUSCH, RIP

The young (47 years old) father and professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University has died after a brief battle against pancreatic cancer.

Not long ago, his “last lecture” at Carnegie Mellon made him famous, as the apparently fit and healthy young man explained his situation, the way he was dealing with it, and the life and learning that made it possible for him to face the future with such grace.

The guys at POWERLINE have posted an announcement with all the relevant links, including one to the video of his last lecture, and another to a great obituary.

You can get all of it HERE

RIP, Randy Pausch.

Posted by Earl on 07/30 at 09:34 AM
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

LET’S TAX THE RICH, HE SUGGESTED…..

Well, it’s always worked before, right?

Not to speak of the fact that the top 50% of taxpayers are ALREADY paying 97% of the income taxes being collected by the IRS.

And if we want to talk about the truly rich….

Posted by Earl on 07/22 at 11:20 PM
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PALESTINIANS BOMB CIVILIANS INTO PIECES…..ISRAEL DEVELOPS TECHNOLOGY FOR PARAPLEGICS TO WALK

It’s true…..a young man who was shot in the back during the first Lebanon war, and has been in a wheelchair for 20 years, is now standing on his own, climbing stairs and walking on the beach.
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ReWalk is an Israeli-developed quasi-robotic ambulation system developed by ARGO Medical Technologies that provides a viable, upright day-to-day alternative to wheelchair users. The wearable upright mobility system was specially designed for individuals with lower-limb disabilities. By restoring upright mobility, the developers say, ReWalk delivers benefits on the health, economic, and societal levels.

Posted by Earl on 07/22 at 11:12 PM
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Monday, July 14, 2008

HOW DO THE MULLAHS PLAN TO BRING THE U.S. TO HER KNEES…...?

Iraq doesn’t seem to be going all that well, after all. Given a choice, and protected from reprisals, most Iraqis appear to choose something a lot less militant than what the Taliban or Iran has on offer.

IMRAN RAZA Pakistani-American film-maker, went to a madrassah in Pakistan and saw how an Atlanta (Georgia) taxi-driver’s kids were being turned into the kind of “secret weapons” that bombed the London Subways in 2005.

He thinks we need to wake up to the danger, and he’s made a film to show us what we’re facing…...

Watch the trailer—

Posted by Earl on 07/14 at 10:54 AM
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

HOW TO BECOME A SOUTH AMERICAN BANANA REPUBLIC…..

If you vote for ANYONE on the left, you’re a complete idiot!! We’ve been warned, folks - there’s no room for excuses like “I didn’t know…..“

Hat Tip: THE INSTAPUNDIT

Posted by Earl on 07/13 at 08:09 AM
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

“CHANGE” IS IN THE AIR…..BUT BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH (OR VOTE) FOR!

The idea that America needs to “change” is all the rage—it’s sweeping MANY citizens, especially among those too young to have significant experience of anywhere but their own country. But, “change” to what? Shouldn’t we have a clear idea of where we’re headed before we set off? And change AWAY from what? Wouldn’t it make sense to do some comparisons of important aspects of this country in relation to those same aspects of the countries we’re expected to become more like?

Well, I think so.

Here’s a description of a bunch of kids, who became “the Fugees”, now living near me in Georgia…...

They’re war refugees from 24 countries, every nightmare on earth. Most had spoken no English when they arrived in America. They’d been placed in classrooms according to their age rather than their reading level and left to wither. Most of their families had been shattered, their fathers killed, imprisoned or divorced because a single mother had a better chance to get a visa out of hell ... and God knows what marauding armies had done to some of those mothers. Several Fugees had fought as child soldiers in Liberia. One had seen his father gunned down by soldiers, another had seen his dad’s fingers sliced off. One had watched rebels give his brother a gun and a choice: Kill yourself or your best friend. Then he’d watched his brother blow the friend away.

Posted by Earl on 07/03 at 02:11 PM
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